![]() ![]() As the two young lovers translate the grandmother?s letters, Daughter begins to understand that each woman in her family embodies a myth?and that she will have to bring her family?s secrets to light in order to change their destiny. All the while, Daughter is falling for Ben, a neighborhood girl with strange powers of her own. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother a visiting aunt arrives with snakes in her belly a brother tests the possibility of flight. ![]() Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. She was called Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family's queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets.One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman?s body. Bestiary K-Ming Chang 3.45 2,884 ratings733 reviews Want to read Kindle 8.99 Rate this book Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family's queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets. ![]()
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